V
Miracle Finish Mow
Required To Catch
Braves in National
By FRED DOWN
United Press Sports Writer
The National league's chances
of heading off Milwaukee's pen
nant express rested today on the
forlorn hope that one of the
Braves' bedraggled pursuers can
match the 1951 Giants' "miracle
finish."
The Braves Just about com
pleted Ja peration wrapup'
Thursdanight when they crush
ed the Cincinnati Redlegs, 8-1
to run their winning streak to
10 games and their first-place
lead to 8V2. Hank Aaron drove
in five runs with his 33rd and
34th homers and Warren Spahn
spun an eight-hitter as the Braves
whipped the Redlegs for the 14th
time in 16 meetings.
That 8V-game lead with only
41 games to play places the
Brrves in almost exactly the
sane position as were the 1951
Brooklyn Dodgers. The Dodgen
led by nine games with 41 to
plsy that year only to have the
"Giants win 30 of their last 36
games and then win the result
ing playoff on Bobby Thomson's
famous home run.
Contenders Collapsing
The major difference in the
corresponding positions of the
'57 Braves and '51 Dodgers is
that the "miracle Giants" had
already begun to make their
move while all the current "con
tenders" are in a state of virtual
collapse. The St. Louis Cardinals
have lost 9 in a row, the Dodgers
have dropped 7 of their last 10,
Williams Gains
Five on Mantle
Washington IP Ted Wil
lams gained five big points on
Mickey Mantle in their "man-to-man"
three-duel in Boston
and will carry a .393 average
into ttrsht's game with the
Washington Senators.
The Boston Red Sox slugger
hit a double and a single in
three official tries yesterday to
give him five hits in eight trips
and a .625 mark for the series
with the Yankees. Mantle, mean
while, went hitless in two trips
yesterday and walked thre
times.
Leaque Leaders
.334
Pet.
.333
J23
.329
.327
o
.393
.393
.320
.318
317
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NATIONAL LEAGUE
Aaron. Mil. ..110 449 91 150
Player ft Club C. AB R.; H.
Musial. S. L. 112 438 67 145
Mavs. N. Y. 114 432 83 142
Groat. Pgh. 88 347 41 114
Robis'n. Cin. 10B 443 77 14S
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Will'nu, Bos. 107 354 79 139
Mantle. N. Y. 113 376 101 143
Boyd. Baltl. 107 3B2 57 116
Woodl'g. Cle. 98 308 53 98
Fox. Chi. 113 445 77 141
nnnia nnm '
National lcacu Aaron. Braves
34: Snider. Dodgen 29: Crowe. Red
legs 28: Mavi. Giants 26; Musial.
Cards 25; Banks. Cubs 25.
American league Mantle. Yanks
32; Williams. Red Sox 31: Sievers,
Senators 30: Wertz. Indians 20; Cola
vito. Indians 20: Zernlal, Athletics
20.
Runs Batted In
Natinnnl league Aaron. Braves 93:
XTu.ial. Cards 88: Crowe. Redlegs
77; Mays. Giants 74; Hodges, Dodgers
70.
American league Mantle. Yanks
83: Sievers. Senators 81: Wertz, In
dians 78; Skowron, Yanks 74; Jen
sen. Red Sox 73.
Pitching
Schmidt, Cards 10-1: Narleskl. In
Him 9-2 Donovan. White Sox 13-3
Sanford, Phils 15-4: Grim, Yanks 10-3;
Tuney, xanke iu-J-
STANDINGS
San Francisco .
Vancouver
San Diego
Hollvwood
Seattle
Los Angeles
Sacramento
Portland
W. L. Pet. GB
78 52 .600
74 54 .578 3
72 58 .563 5
73 57 .562 5
67 63 .515 11
58 70 .453 19
49 82 .374 29 'i
47 84 .359 31 is
Thursday's Results
San Francisco 13. Portland 6
Hollywood 3, Vancouver 1
Los Angeles 3. San Diego 2
Seattle 3. Sacramento 0
NATIONAL LEAGUE
W. L.
Milwaukee
St. Louis
Brooklyn
Cincinnati
Philadelphia
New York -Chicago
Pittsburgh -
, 71
, 62
63
61
59
52
, 42
41
42
50
51
52
53
63
69
71
Pet
.628
.554
.553
.540
.527
.452
378
J 66
GB
10
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20
28
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Thursday's Results
New York 9. Brooklyn 4
Chicago 4. Si. Louis 1
Milwaukee 8. Cincinnati 1 (night)
(Only games scheduled.)
Saturday's Games
Pittsburgh at Brooklyn
New York at Philadelphia
Cincinnati at Chicago
St. Louis at Milwaukee
AMERICAN LEAGUE
New York .
Chicago
Boston
Baltimore
Detroit
Cleveland
Kansas City
Washington
W. L. Pet. GB
4 39 .655
68 44 .607 5'i
1 52 -540 13
55 56 .495 18
55 58 .487 19
54 60 .474 20 ' i
43 71 .377 31',
42 72 .308 32 ij
n Thursday's Results
New York 6. Boston 3
n Cleveland 5. Chicago 4
Kansas City 7, Detroit 2
f (Only games scheduled.)
Saturday's Games
Chicago at Detroit
Cleveland at Kansas City (night)
Baltimore at New York
Boston at Washington
W. L. Pet GB
32 15 .681
28 19 .596 4
26 21 .553 6
20 25 .444 11
19 29 .396 1312
15 31 .326 16 '2
the Redlegs have lost 8 of their
last 12 and the Philadelphia
Phillies 10 of their last 13.
Aaron, who had hit only .271
in the previous 15 games with
the Redlegs, sent the Braves off
winging with a three-run homer
off Hal Jeffcoat in the first in
ning and hen blasted a two-run
hner off Don Gfoss in the sev
enth. Aaron, shooting for the
NL's first triple crown since
1937, now leads the majors with
34 homers and 9) runs batted in
and holds a one-point lead over
Stan Musial, .334 to .333, in the
league batting race.
Spahn, beating the Redlegs for
the fifth straight 4ime this season
and the 4th time in his career
yielded an unearned run in the
second inning on Don Hoak's
double, an errr by Aaron and
Johnny Temple's single. Ed
Mathews and rookie Bob Hazle
also homered for the Braves, who
have socked Cincinnati pitching
for a .304-team batting average
in the 16 games.
Cards Keep Loosing
Moe Drabowsky pitched a six-
hitter for the Chicago Cubs,
whose 4-1 victory extended the
Cardinals' losing streak to their
longest since 1947. Dale Long
and Chuck Tanner homered be
hind Drabovsky, who struck out
seven while notching his ninth
win. Sam Jones was tagged with
his seventh defeat and his third
during the Cardinals' losing
skein.
Light-hitting catcher Valmy
Thomas knocked in four runs
with a homer and triple to lead
the Giants to a 9-4 conquest of
the Dodgers. Ramon Monzant re
ceived credit for his first win al
though Red Worthington held
the Dodgers hitless over the last
three innings. Don Drysdale suf
fered his 7th loss compared to
10 victories. Philadelphia and
Pittsburgh were not scheduled.
The New York Yankees re
gained a 5'2-game lead in the
American league when they beat
the Boston Red Sox, 6-3, and the
Cleveland Indians defeated the
Chicago White Sox, 5-4. . The
Kansas City Athletics downed
the Detroit Tigers, 7-2, in the
other game.
Gil McDougald's two-run
eighth-inning homer was the big
blow for the Yankees as Bob
Turley won his 10th game with
relief aid from Bob Grim. Ted
Williams had two of the Red
Sox" nine hits' to raise his aver
age to .393 while Mantle went
hitless in two tries and dropped
to .380.
Chico Fernandez' grand-slam
homer in the sixth inning enab
led the Indians to snap their six
game losing streak and Chicago's
three-game winning skein. Don
Mossi went all the way to win
his ninth game while Jack
Harshman suffered his seventh
defeat.
Billy Hunter had a single, dou
ble and triple and Billy Martin
and Woody Held each homered
to spark an 11-hit Kansas City
attack that tagged 14-game win
ner Jim Bunning with his fifth
loss. Johnny Grolh and Harvey
Kuenn each had two hits for Detroit.
Pal Recalls
Days With
Babe Ruth
Philadelphia HP) Senti
mental old Benny Bengough
turned the T:lock back 30 years
today to reminisce about his by
gone buddy, Babe Ruth, on the
ninth anniversary of the Babe's
death.
Bennie, now a coach with the
Philadelphia Phillies, was one of
Ruth's closest baseball pals.
They never roomed together but
the Babe and Bengough were in
separable on and off the field.
"I used to warm up the Babe
before each game, Bengough
recalls. "As soon as the players
started to throw to one another
on the sidelines, he'd bellow.
'Where's Barney Google?' That
was his nickname for me.
"You know we rarely called
him Babe. Our favorite nick
name for the guy was 'Jidge.' I
don't know why we decided on
this but it stuck with the Babe
for the eight years I spent with
the Yankees from 1923 to 1930.
Great Clubhouse Jokester
"The guy was a 'great jokester
in the clubhouse but dead serious
on the field. I recall the day he
spit tobacco juice all over and
in Wilcey Moore's' undersocks.
But the next day, he showed up
with a dozen undersocks which
he had bought for Moore.
"Then Babe would wait until
players taped their pant legs to
their stockings and as they
turned their backs to him, pre
paring to pull up their pants,
the Babe would cut off the back
part of the tape with scissors.
"The big guy had a heart of
gold. When the Yanks played at
the Polo Grounds, they used to
give a pair of shoes to everyone
who hit a homer. Well, Babe
would take the shoes and we'd
deliver them to orphanages.
"I also recall many visits we
made together to hospitals to see
crippled and ailing kids. We
would get to a town and pretty
soon the phone would ring in my
room and the Babe would say,
'Let's go, Barney, I have a call
or two to make.' So off we would
go with an autographed baseball,
a glove, a bat or some gift to a
hospitalized kid.
Pitched Exhibition Games
"My greatest thrill in those
years with the Yanks was being
Babe's battery mate. Yeah, I
caught him in the exhibition
games he used to pitch against
Boston when we went there to
play the Braves.
Perhaps the funniest incident
of all was the year Babe fell into
a batting slump. He was a super
stitious guy and a jokester like
I said. He decided to put Jimmy
Reese in a locker and keep him
there until the club was ready
to go onto the field.
"The first time Babe did this,
he got two hits. So it became
a ritual with him to lock Reese
in the locker daily. Well, one
day we went on the field and
along about the fifth or sixth
inning, Miller Huggins looked
around for Reese to pinch-hit.
But Jimmy wasn't to be found.
The Babe had forgot to unlock
the locker."
"Yeah, ole Jidge was quite a
guy. He had a great sense of
humor. He was the butt of some
jokes but almost always he held
the upper hand. He was sincere
and a terrific competitor. He
was always giving the rookies
words of advice. He liked kids."
ISPORTSl
1 1 1 1
Upper Rogue
Fish Report
Challenged
Reports that fishing is not
good on the upper Rogue riv
er have been challenged by a
number of resident along the
stream.
Fish are being taken from
the river, it was asserted.
Some nice iteelhead have
been landed and limit catches
of good sized trout have been
reported.
- Good catches have been
made on flies.
Will Mays Only
Attraction at
NY Polo Grounds
New York OP) Willie Mays
says he'll "follow the crowd" xo
San Francisco but it's obviuus
his heart still lies in the t Polo
Grounds, where he is the only
attraction pulling in the last
remaining die-hards today.
"I'll miss this place," said the
Giant center fielder, gesturing
toward the familiar Polo
Grounds' landscape. "I'll miss
it more'n anybody knows. The
fans have been great to me here
. . . I feel like this is my horns
and these are all my friends.
"But I go where the team goes.
If it's San Francisco, that's it.
I've been there a coupla' times.
Exhibition games, you know. It
seemed okay to me. Struck me
as a real big city, with a lot of
people, just like this one."
Only 7,587 fans turned .out
to watch the Giants beat the
Dodgers, 9-4, Thursday, and
there was little doubt from their
pre-game comments that a sub
stantial number of them plunk
ed down the. admission price
merely to see Mays.
Australian .Pursuit Race
On Spturday Hardtop Slate
An Australian pursuit race first time in the top 12 this
will he the added attraction Sat
urday night when hardtop auto
races resum at Valley View
track two miles this side of Ash
land. In the race the faster cars
will start tt the rear. When a
car is passed it is out of the
race.
The regular program of racing
is also slated with the usual
heats, trophy dashes, main and
semi-main. Time trials are at
7 p.m. with the first race at 8
p.m. -
At least three cars are ex
pected from Klamath Falls.
Lemley Leads
Wayne Lemley A-57, contin
ues to lead the chase for the
point etiampionship of the 1957
season. His count is up 337!
Crock Hunter 15-X, still is sec
ond with 307 and Asher, C-l, has
260. Bob McGilvray, C-50, and
Bob Wilcox, M-3, are knotted
for fourtla with 233 apiece.
Others in the top 12 are Lou
Kurz, M-7, with 210, Bob Jen
kins, M-4, with 207, Elmer Sise
more, M-43, with 204; Wally
Cannon, A-20, and John Jones,
M-5, each with 187, Lee Davis,
M-14, with 138, and Jack Keck,
M-44, with 127. It is Keek's
season.
plans for a destruction race
have been delayed until enough
cars are rounded up. It may be
staged next wek end.
Althea Faces
Girls Champ
Manchester, Mass. (UT Wim
bledon Champion Althea Gibson
met young Mimi Arnold of Red
wood City, Calif., today in the
second half of the qiiaterfinals
of the Essex County club's 30th
Women's Invitational Tennis
tournament.
The 17-year-old Miss Arnold,
who is national girls champion,
moved into today's match with
a hard fought victory over vet
eran Margaret Varner of El
Paso, Tex., Wednesday.
Miss Gibson has had little
trouble thus far in the tourna
ment, winning both previous
matches in two sets. She has lost
only six of 30 games.
In the other match today thjrd
seeded Dorothy Knode of Forest
Hills, N. Y., faced Shirley Bloom
er of Great Britain, the top-seeded
foreign entry.
Second-seeded Louise Brough
of Beverly Hills, Calif., defeated
Janet Hopps of Seattle, Wash.,
6-3, 6-2, to move into the semi
finals of the tournament Thurs
day. Beaverton
Beats Drain
Portland HP) Drain suf
fered its first defeat in the state
AABC tournament Thursday
night, dropping a 5-3 decision to
Showboat of Beaverton. This
leaves Showboat and Archer
Blower & Pipe the only unbeat
en teams in the double-elimination
tournament.
Chain Saw
Gains Knot
For Second
M and W Chain Saw regained
a second place knot in the Jack
son County Softball association
last night by defeating National
Uuard 4 to 3 at Camp White.
xwenty-Thirty club nipped
Morse Motors 17 to 16 in a widp
open game which put Morse
DacK into the cellar.
Chain Sawmen overcame an
0 to 3 deficit with all their
markers in the sixth inning.
Owen Bristlin, Larry Slessler
and Dick Meister socked singles
in the frame. Lou Schell tripled
and scored on Willard Barnum's
sacrifice flyout.
Morse, trailins 7 fn 13 senrorl
eight runs in the sixth to go
in tront is to 13. However, 20-30
got four counters in the seventh
inning to one by Morse.
SHORT SCORES: H H E
M-W Chain Saw 4 5 3
National Guard - 3 4 0
Barnum, Brittsan 5 and Gar
ner, Bnttsan 2, Bristlin 5; D.
Vessey and Tonn.
R H E
20-30 Club 17 11 4
Morse Motors 16 12 3
Romine and Reeves; Morgan
and Smith.
All-Comer Track
Meet Saturday
Portland' Another all-comers
track and field meet will be
held here on Saturday, Aug. 17.
Location is the Jefferson high
track. Junior and girls events
will begin at 3 p.m. and high
school and open divisions at 6
p.m.
The meet is sponsored by the
Portland Track and Field club
and has AAU sanction. Bill
Sorsby and Doug Basham are
directors.
VFW Rifle Shoot
To Be on Sunday
CFW Rifle and Pistol club of
Medford will have its last regu
lar big bore rifle shoot of the
season Sunday, Aug. 18, at the
Camp White range.
The range will open at 6:30
a.m.' and members are asked to
be on hand early since targets
may have to be pasted.
Club policy of accepting new
members at the range is still in
force. Information on the club
may be obtained by telephoning
Secretary William O. Burnette
(SP 2-8421).
Detroit (IP) Amid the recent
heavy rains, the Tyre drive-in
theater displayed the current
movie: "Many Rivers to Sross."
Friday, August 16. 1957
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE ELEVEN
September 18
Deadline for
Elk Applications
Portland At this time of
year it is a difficult job to get
nimrods thinking about the
hunting seasons to come. Warm,
balmy summer days seem to hold
the hunter's enthusiasm dor
mant. With most hunters it takes
a few frosty nights and nippy
mornings before the hunting
urge can be generated. But once
the autumn air turns crisp it's
time for action, and hunters are
then hard to hold.
A word of warning though.
The hunting seasons are creep
ing up. Hunters who don't want
to get caught short had better
shake off that summer lethargy,
especially if they want to par
ticipate in the special and con
trolled hunts.
There are lots of shoots to
choose from, 12 for elk and
eight for deer. There is no extra
fee for the elk hunts except an
applicant must have a general
elk tag. A $5 fee is charged for
all of the special deer .hunts,
which could provide a bonus
deer for those participating. In
other words, a hunter may take
a deer on his regular deer tag
and an additional one on the $5
tag. That is, he can if he's lucky.
Deadline for submitting elK
applications is Sept. 18 at 5 p.m.
These applications must be in
the game commission's Portland
office on that date. This means
that upstate hunters must sub
mit applications several days in
advance of this date in order
for them to reach Portland by
the closing date. Closing date
for deer applications has been
set for 5 p.m. on Sept. 10.
A total of 2000 permits will
be issued for the 12 unit elk
hunts which will allow the hold
er to take an animal of either
sex from the area for which he
holds a permit. Deer hunters
will have a chance to draw for
4,300 tags in the eight controlled
deer areas. In five of the areas
antlerless deer must be taken,
while in the other three a deer
of either sex is allowed.
Stars Dash Mcuntie
Hopes; Beavers Try
Dairy Maids Play
Ashland Team
Camp White Rogue Valley
Dairy Maids will meet an Ash
land YMCA men's team this
evening at Memorial field here.
Game time is 7:30 p.m.
The Maids were recent parti
cipants in the women's state
softball tourney at Eugene. They
won the sportsmanship award
and Shortstop Bernice Bigham
was named to the all-state team
as a utility infielder.
By JIM HEALY
United Press Sports Writer
The Hollywood Stars, never
ones to let down when the go
ing gets sticky, Thursday night
dashed Vancouver's hopes of
moving to within one notch of
the Pacific Coast league leader
ship or even maintaining the
status quo.
Hollywood downed the Mo'eyv
ties 3-1 In a hard foueht duel.
while San Francisco, which Van
couver is desperately trying to
catch, stomped all over its fa
vorite club in the league Port
land. That score was a lopsided
13-6.
The net result is that Van
couver is now bacft to tfiree
games from the top, while Holly
wood is a single percentage point
from third place San Degio.
Angels Help
Los Angeles helped the situa
tion by taking the Padres, 3-2,
and in the other loop contest,
Seattle blanked Sacramento,
2-0.
One thing. You can't say the
Beavers didn't try. Frank Kel
lert and Hayward Sullivan hom
ered to help give the Seals a six
run lead going into the bottom
of the fifth. Tllen Portland
lashed back for six tallies of its
own. But it must have taken all
the Beavers' drive because they
never scored again.
Migratory Bird
Stamps on Sale
Duck stamps are now on
sale at the Medford post of
fice, and at the tub station on
East Main, it was announced
today. The stamps, which
must be attached to the hunt
license and endorsed, cost S2
each.
Prospective duck hunters
are asked to buy their duck
stamps as early as possible to
avoid a possible rush as the
hunting season opens, witn
the result that the supply will
be exhausted.
Portland (IB The State
Game Commission said today it
would set dates for Oregon's
migratory Waterfowl season
early next week.
The Interior department has
announced a 95-day season cr
the Pacific flyway, an increase
of 15 days over last year. In
dividual states may set the dates
for their seasons which, must be
between the dates of October 1
and January 15.
Earl Rapp and Bob Borkow
ski uncorked homers for Port
land in that grand fifth frame.
Leo Kiely won, his 18th against
four losses.
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Tri-City 4. Wenatchee 3
Yakima 8. Salem 3
Eugene 3. Lewiston 2 Hst garnet
Lewiston 12. Eugene 7 (2nd game)
INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE
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TorontD 5. Havana 3
Montreal 6. Miami 5
Columbus 3, Rochester 1
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